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 |  Subject: Idiotic writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won  Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:59 pm | |
| The Trump era requires suppressing 'bigoted' speech, a writer at Slate argued recently.
In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley come with the territory. Why? Because, as the title of the article states, the students are absolutely right.
In order to resist the gathering dark forces, Nwanevu believes that these extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. In the battle of good versus evil, Trump’s assault on logic, reason and truth requires that the Left up their game, adopting their own unscrupulous tactics to silence bigotry, racism, sexism and xenophobia:
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- “[T]his moment in American politics and American life proves that the victory of reason cannot always be assured. The purveyors of logic, of facts dutifully checked and delivered to the public, lost big league in November. [ … ] This is, to borrow a phrase, a time for choosing. In the Trump era, should we side with those who insist that the bigoted must traipse unhindered through our halls of learning? Or should we dare to disagree?”
College campuses are the proving grounds for these new tactics, which include shouting down unpopular speakers, damaging campus property and attacking faculty members. The author calls those who insist that safe spaces, trigger warnings and disinvites to controversial speakers are unwarranted the “critics of political correctness.” (Note: The PC movement occurred in the 80’s and 90’s and while related to the more recent movement to protect the fragile minds of young adults, they are not identical.)
So the new tactics of the Left on college campuses are not really about disagreeing with bigoted speakers. They’re about stopping civil discourse, deliberation and debate from ensuing, all in order to resist and eventually defeat so-called Trumpism. In order to achieve this end, students are encouraged to resort to heckling and violence in a brass-knuckles campaign to win the culture wars. Unfortunately, the end does not justify the means.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/writer-we-have-ditch-free-speech-because-trump-won
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| | Subject: Re: Idiotic writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:46 pm | |
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